2020 · history · drama · action
Fukushima 50
Directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu2h 2m2020
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Our read: Fukushima 50 (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded history · drama · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- epic-stakes
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